~~ ~~~ yo Tom! It IS funny, being on the internet, where very few have learned to read or write, and here we are discussing (seemingly reading and writing!) on...
hi all, Ive written about secure operating systems for years on the list & elsewhere. the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) initiative by Negroponte seems to be...
hi all these links seem to point to the collaborative OLPC code development project, apparently an offshoot of redhat/fedora. it says they are trying to boil...
Hello All, I use the spring mass model to study human running (1). I am interested in using the model to understand the dependence of the step frequency,...
Wired 15.01: It's Alive! http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/15.01/alive.html Science & Technology at Scientific American.com: A Robot in Every Home -- [ ...
hi all, luck has smiled on us. there has been a bit of shift in the leadership spots on netflix. "kitty" is now in 2nd place after a day or two in 1st. he has...
hi all. I wanted to write a little about what is called "the monkey trap". === The way you catch a monkey is quite simple. What you do is put a large, heavy ...
hi all, its been awhile since the dual core systems have been out, they are now working their way into midrange systems, & there are a lot of excellent ...
Advertising Age - Digital - 'Web 2.0' Proves Most Popular Wikipedia Entry http://adage.com/digital/article.php?article_id=114014 Linux grid takes out firm's...
Attack of the Zombie Computers Is Growing Threat http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/07/technology/07net.html?_r=1&oref=slogin Bill Joy's greatest gift to man –...
from: http://groups.google.com/group/sci.physics.plasma ~~~ ~~~~~ Kia ora, Jim, all, (Maori Blessings). I participated much more in discussions of frontier ...
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Jan 8, 2007 9:53 pm
Hello There is quite a difference between the "the monkey trap" and the tragedy of the commons (TOC). In the first one, all is required is an individual's...
hi fabio I feel monkey trap vs tragedy of commons are quite similar although I failed to explain it more coherently/precisely. thanks for zooming in on that. ...
Wired News: CES' Dirty Secret: Software Rules http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,72433-0.html?tw=wn_index_1 Scott Rosenberg: What Makes Software So Hard ...
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Jan 9, 2007 1:20 am
one could say that in each case, there has been a failure of the greedy algorithm. the greedy algorithm is not always or not usually the optimal approach. its...
hi fabio. the more I think about monkey trap vs tragedy of the commons, the less clear it is to me. they get blurry in my mind. its a philosophical hall of...
hi all, I was doing a little research on 64 bit linux, which seems pretty far along from what I can tell. 64 bit linux seems to have largely gotten ahead of...
For Windows Vista Security, Microsoft Called in Pros - washingtonpost.com http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/08/AR2007010801352.html ...
hi all, I forgot to include this quote. should have posted this a long time ago, but it got good media coverage at the time. ray ozzie is the author of the...
Congress to Take Up Net’s Future - New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/10/washington/10net.html?ref=technology Supercomputers to take on new...
hi all, unfortunately supercomputer projects are usually very proprietary & the results & systems are not very well publicized. in contrast, apparently the oak...
hi all, lots could be written on software complexity and there is definitely some interesting literature out there. I personally really like case studies that...
Wired News: House Seat Hangs by a Byte http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,72452-0.html?tw=wn_index_1 Survey: Offshoring does not cost developer jobs |...
... but then find it is not really necessary to the user. that was unnecessary complexity, a sort of "overcomplexity". and suppose you have to get rid of it, ...
